He said that waaaay earlier on in his career. He was weighing around 220-230 lbs when he first moved up to LHW.

Now, he says he walks around at 210 and could make 185, but doesn't want to. In a way, it's very reasonable: while fans can recognize that ideal weight classes are generally the best, fans lose sight that dropping a weight class means forfeiting all the good (good $$$) matchups in that weight class, in exchange for another. I suppose he feels no reason to get rid of all the big LHW fights that are open to him, and would rather leave that for later, if he has to.

He said that waaaay earlier on in his career. He was weighing around 220-230 lbs when he first moved up to LHW.

Now, he says he walks around at 210 and could make 185, but doesn't want to. In a way, it's very reasonable: while fans can recognize that ideal weight classes are generally the best, fans lose sight that dropping a weight class means forfeiting all the good (good $$$) matchups in that weight class, in exchange for another. I suppose he feels no reason to get rid of all the big LHW fights that are open to him, and would rather leave that for later, if he has to.

Also, as a side note, he's bigger than Hendo, Rashad, and Machida.

I thought he looks comparable to Rashad and Machida. I didnt think he was 210, he looked more like barely 200 to me. 210 at LHW is not bad at all, just didnt think he was there.

Ok, yeah, that does look like he is ok at LHW, i just thought he was about 10-15lbs lighter than he is at LHW for some reason. So he is around 210, id say that's big enough and possibly bigger than Rashad and Machida.

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